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-the use of literature and art as windows into the characters
-the fragile grief of watching a token of affection become a monument of discomfort / bloody fowl metaphor and eventual reversal (i'd like to think brett eventually got a taste of his own bloody fowl metaphor when hayden presented him with his love and he didn't know what to do with it)
-how trauma shaped each of their views on love
-facades & suppressed selves, mutual acceptance & intimacy
-post-ending thoughts// i'd love to think yuri was able to undergo therapy with teach's urging, likely before he enlisted!
-codependency
-yuri's ptsd
-teach's depression, substance dependence
-ilay navigating aspd and his relationship with taeui
-taeui and depression
-taeui's relationship with his family
- moral ambiguity, systemic failure, kids failed by the world, victims becoming perpetrators
- heeseong's tragedy & parallel with je-oh
- je-oh's grit, moral compromise & breaking the cycle
- je-oh/seongrok attachment, trauma & savior dynamics
- sieon's privilege & freedom of choice
- institutional corruption & justice
- hyeonwoo's changing view of justice
- character parallels, mirrored trajectories & cycles
- power, agency, disposabilty
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